Visual Language of Social Media

Toru Izumida's screenshot artwork is incredibly compelling to me as a fellow artist who uses social media. I screenshot images all the time on my computer and even more so on my iPhone, but would have never considered linking them together to create very original pieces of artwork. I think I am drawn to this work too because of my interest in collaging and mixed media work. It is the digital collage. She groups the shots together based on color and content and really takes into consideration the composition when figuring out how to layer and arrange them. This is a very artistic approach to a common function of the modern internet world and ties in nicely with my theme of "originality" for this blog.

On her website, Izumida states "I'm an artist who uses screenshots as a means of modern archiving. I started creating screenshot art after becoming enthralled by the beauty of web-based photos, videos, and on-screen images. As an artist, I thought it would be interesting to combine multiple images onto a single screen."